10 Artists Who Made Entire Movie Soundtracks

Every single facet of Nine Inch Nails' work has seen Trent Reznor toying with what makes us uncomfortable. Even when he's stripped down to just a piano and a little bit of ambience on Hurt, you're completely transfixed by the raw pain that he's feeling on the other side of the record. Though we had come a long way from the days of The Downward Spiral, Trent's first turn as a film composer had all of the same elements we needed out of a Nine Inch Nails project.

While Trent had made soundtracks before for something like the Quake video game soundtrack, most of those just felt like Nine Inch Nails cuts without the vocals some of the time. Teaming up with Atticus Ross for David Fincher's The Social Network, it feels like Trent took all of the darkness that was found on his series of Ghost recordings and harnessed them that much more, creating a soundtrack that sounds epic when it needs to be and absolutely terrifying just a second later.

Compared to what he would go on to do later for Disney with Soul or even reuniting with Fincher on Gone Girl, there's a certain tension on this soundtrack that's a lot more visceral, almost like something's following you and trying to keep your head on straight as you make sense of what's happening. Considering the movie's themes of the loss of trust and what eventually happened with Facebook itself later, Trent could be considered prophetic with the feelings that he captured here.